Aras Drives Performance in Product Lifecycle Processes
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Aras Innovator
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft .NET Framework
- Microsoft SharePoint
Tech Stack
- .NET Framework
- SQL Server
- XML Web Services
- SOAP Web Services
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
Applicable Industries
- Automotive
- Consumer Goods
- Pharmaceuticals
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
- Business Operation
Services
- System Integration
- Training
About The Customer
Freudenberg-NOK is a North American subsidiary of the Freudenberg Group, a global tier 1 automotive supplier. The company designs and produces several hundred new components each year for automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers including General Motors, Ford, and Nissan. Freudenberg-NOK is part of a $7 billion company that operates across various industries, including high-tech, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and automotive. The company is committed to improving new product introduction, quality compliance, and risk management to satisfy customers and achieve profitable growth. Freudenberg-NOK recognized the need for better visibility and improved collaboration across its global facilities to maintain its competitive edge.
The Challenge
Launching innovative new products on time while ensuring quality and profitability targets are achieved is critical in any industry. Businesses must contend with increasingly narrow windows of opportunity in the marketplace, intensifying competition, growing compliance complexity, cost pressures, and shorter development cycles—while also striving to improve quality. With so much at stake, industry-leading companies like the Freudenberg Group are continually seeking to improve new product introduction, quality compliance, and risk management in order to satisfy customers and achieve profitable growth. Several years ago, executives at Freudenberg recognized that the $7 billion company’s competitive success hinged on achieving better visibility and improved collaboration across its global facilities.
The Solution
Freudenberg found an effective solution in the Aras Innovator enterprise open source software suite from Aras Corporation. Built entirely on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Aras Innovator automates new product introduction, advanced product quality planning (APQP), and enterprise product lifecycle management for product-based companies of all sizes in a wide range of industries. Aras Innovator employs a model-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA) with XML Web services technology to achieve unmatched flexibility so companies can quickly deploy and easily adapt the enterprise software solutions to their unique business needs. Aras provides enterprise-class support, consulting, and training services to help organizations achieve business results. Project teams use Aras Innovator to collaborate on deliverables, track program costs, and manage project risks. Change management workflows coordinate activities, and document management capabilities provide Web-based access to files and important information to provide all stakeholders with a single version of the truth about the project’s status. Aras Innovator’s failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) functionality helps identify and mitigate potential risks, and corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) with closed-loop action items ensure issues are resolved.
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